Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers

Well this is something a little different, a self-help book chosen in the New Year. It certainly provided lots of discussion.

This book talks through ways of pushing yourself, of looking at life differently, saying "Yes" and being more positive. It has some really good points, we liked the chapter on instead of thinking about multiple bad outcomes to a situation and worrying about them, just think to yourself "I can handle this, whatever happens I can handle it".

We liked the no regrets message, instead of going over mistakes and thinking about what could have been, move forwards. Every decision you have made up to now has brought you here so how can they be bad?

We also liked the life grid thingy, a way of thinking about different aspects of your life and ensuring you fill your grid. So if your relationship ends or you lose your job, you still have lots of things which make you happy, this ensures you don't rely on just one area of life to make you happy.

However, it was really cheesy and the anecdotes didn't ring true, it started to get a bit unrealistic towards the end of the book. But overall, we enjoyed it and we'd all recommend it.

Most of our categories don't fit with this type of book, so instead we each gave it a mark out of 10.

Kate - 7
Susie - 6
Jen - 6
Lisa - 5
Gill - 7

Average score: 6/10

The next book was chosen by Lisa and will be Dreams and Shadows by Robert Cargill, Gill will be hosting the April meeting.